Editing Kingdoms: Playing The Adjudicator (section)

==The rules are your domain==

Players should be gently discouraged from trying to break the game and overly manipulate the rules. For example, it isn't a good idea to let players browbeat you into attaching a certain ''descriptor'' to their prose, or to manipulate you into telling them what they need to write to achieve a ''descriptor''. By all means, teach and guide, but don't let the players play you.

Part of fairness is not deliberately feeding players great or duff combos. Make your judgments objectively, and keep game balance in mind at all times.

That's not to say that you should be striving to keep both sides equal in power all the time - that's just another form of bias, but towards the underdog. Your goal is to provide a memorable and enjoyable experience, not to work towards a certain outcome to the game.

Of course, to know how to use the rules, you need to be familiar with them. Read them through at least once, and get a feel for how they work. The players can learn as they go - you need to know how things work ahead of time.